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The proportion of primary school pupils in neighbouring North Lincolnshire not speaking English as a first language has risen from 10 per cent (1,220 out of 11,607) in January 2016 to 11 per cent (1,297 out of 11,751) 12 months later.

Nationally, 20.6 per cent of pupils - 771,083 out of 3.7m - don’t speak English as a first language.

That works is a rise of 0.5 percentage points compared to January 2016, when the number of pupils speaking a foreign language at home was 734,355 out of 3.6m, or 20.1 per cent.

A pupil is recorded as having English as an additional language if they are exposed to a language at home that is known or believed to be other than English. The Department for Education says this not necessarily a measure of English language proficiency - since people can sometimes speak fluent English even when it is not the main language used at home - or a good way of gauging recent immigration.

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The increase in pupils with English as a second language is largely driven by increases in the birth rate rather than direct current immigration, the DfE believes.

That in turn is driven by an increase in the number of children born to non-UK born women (compared to those born to UK-born women).

The number of children born to non-UK born women more than doubled between 1999 and 2010 - the years in which most children currently in schools were born - and the numbers of non-UK born women also increased.